In order to climb to the very top of the Olympus football and become an indispensable player in the national team of your country, you need to prove yourself a talented footballer and an outstanding personality. Sometimes, in pursuit of fame, athletes lose their individuality and become what the fans want to see them - confident macho with an unforgettable stylish hairstyle and decorated body tattoos. Few manage to stay the same as they were at the beginning of their sports career, but not to Jonas Hector. Among all the stars of world football, he, one of the few, managed to maintain simplicity and modesty.
Club Auersmacher
Jonas Hector was born on May 27, 1990 in the city of Saarbrücken, which is the capital of the German mining region. The young man began to engage in football for a company with his older brother, and then he could not without daily training. The first team for him was his native Auersmacher, in which Jonas Hector made his first steps.
The biography of this young football player was not saturated with some vivid episodes and sensational facts. Before the invitation to the second part of “Cologne” he seriously and did not think about the career of a professional football player.
Adult football
Jonas was very attached to his native village and friends with whom he played in the same team for more than one year, so he was very happy with the transition to the Cologne team. Firstly, not far from home (some 300 km), and secondly, Jonas Hector has already been to Cologne at a football match with his parents and he really liked this stadium and team.
The first year, Hector played for the team under an amateur contract, but after the “Cologne” flew out of the main Bundesliga, a new coach turned his attention to him and transferred him to the position of a left midfielder. Helger Stanislavsky appreciated the young football player for his enormous capacity for work and willingness to devote himself to the game one hundred percent.
After changing the position of Jonas, the team went uphill, and Cologne won 14 matches in a row. Finding himself in an unusual, non-homely atmosphere, Jonas Hector began to learn to take care of himself on his own. The time passed when Mom took full care of him - cooked food, washed clothes. Now Jonas had to do it all on his own.
Rapid take-off
In the spring of 2014 there were 10 matches in the Bundesliga, which determined the future fate of the young man. Jonas Hector is a football player who will not push his competitors with his elbows for the right to take a place in the national team, he just calmly does his favorite thing, and his results are more convincing than a thousand words.
He spent his first match for the German national team against the Gibraltar team, did not distinguish himself by anything special, but did not let the team down either. Joachim Löw - coach of the German national team - released him for this match to take a closer look at the player. And it should be noted that the coaching instinct did not fail him. Today's national team is no longer represented without Hector on the left flank.
Six months after his debut in the national team, Jonas Hector gave two assists in the game against Poland and thereby removed many questions about his candidacy. Although the main thing for the football player himself was that the coach believed in him, which means that he no longer had the right to make a mistake.
When the German national team celebrated their championship in Brazil, even the most ardent Bundestim fans knew little about a midfielder like Jonas Hector. And already at the European Championship in 2016, this football player became the person who decided the outcome of the quarterfinal match against the Italian team, scoring a decisive penalty.
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This is not to say that Jonas Hector is a brilliant player and leader of the German national team, he just does a very good job in the position that the coach trusts him. Whatever heights this footballer reaches, he remains the same modest and simple guy from the German province who loves to go home for the weekend, dine with his family and chat with his childhood friends.
Jonas Hector, whose personal life is behind seven seals and is not exposed for display, does not consider it necessary to publicize on social networks or upload dubious photos to Instagram. He devotes every minute free from football to studying at business courses and working on a career as a coach, undergoing training under a UEFA license.
There is only one conclusion - there are very few football players such as Jonas Hector in modern sports.